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The Astros, over the last 2 years, are almost certainly the best team since the late-90s Yankees. The Dodgers haven't won a WS since 1988. The Brewers are trying to plow through the playoffs on the back of a couple of great relievers and a novel postseason strategy. The Red Sox, won more games this year than anybody in forever almost by accident, and their best player is a tiny man who runs really fast. What else do you need?

The Astros, over the last 2 years, are almost certainly the best team since the late-90s Yankees. The Dodgers haven't won a WS since 1988. The Brewers are trying to plow through the playoffs on the back of a couple of great relievers and a novel postseason strategy. The Red Sox, won more games this year than anybody in forever almost by accident, and their best player is a tiny man who runs really fast. What else do you need?

Fair enough, but the Dodgers are also the most innovative franchise in baseball and have the greatest pitcher since Pedro gutting out the back-end of his prime, among a number of other things.

3. Ok, but that interests only hardcore fans.

I guess there's nothing I can do for you, then. The Brewers are the forefront of a strategy that has changed a major sport in a way it probably hasn't been changed in 40 years, but if that's not interesting to you, that's fine.

4. Yeah, I think this BoSox team dominating will draw me in. Reminds me of the 1976 Reds, who won 108 game IIRC. (Although the competition was tougher.)

I try to be a big-sample-size guy, but the Dodgers have matched up well with every team they've played this year and somehow managed to win just 91 games. I'd say that 17-game difference b/w the two teams probably indicates a difference in quality.

So far they're 1 and 0 against the Dodgers in World Series matchups. That was the Series where Babe Ruth began his since broken record for scoreless innings by blanking the Robins/Dodgers for the last 13 innings in a 2 to 1 14 inning game 2 win.

MLB has spent the entirety of the 21st century lamenting the decline of African-American talent in MLB and devoting (appropriately) untold resources to inner city baseball in response. So I sure hope they market the #### out of having a (pending) African-American MVP and an African-American CS MVP and an African-American winning pitcher putting the Red Sox in the World Series. In Boston, of all places.